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‘Location Off Should Mean Location Off’: Google Lawsuit Over Data Collection

‘Location Off Should Mean Location Off’: Google Lawsuit Over Data Collection
A man using a mobile phone walks past Google offices in New York on Dec. 17, 2018. Mark Lennihan/AP Photo
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
5/31/2021|Updated: 5/31/2021

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich says that Google continues to collect location data even after users turn off tracking on their smartphones and other devices, citing concerns from company employees about its data-collection practices, in the latest update of a lawsuit against the tech giant.

According to documents that were submitted in court by Brnovich’s office last week, emails that were sent among Google engineers expressed concerns about the company’s location data collection efforts after an Associated Press report in 2018; the engineers suggested that they believed the AP article was correct.
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter who covers a range of topics, including politics, U.S., and health news. A father of two, Jack grew up in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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